A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans - 9780143113058
Un libro in lingua di Michael Farquhar edito da Penguin Group USA, 2008
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A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected notables—from the bestselling author of A Treasury of Royal Scandals
“History,” wrote Thomas Carlyle, “is the essence of innumerable biographies.” Yet countless fascinating characters are relegated to a historical limbo. In A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans, Michael Farquhar has scoured the annals and rescued thirty of the most intriguing, unusual, and yes, memorable Americans from obscurity. From the mother of MotherÂ's Day to Paul RevereÂ's rival rider, the Mayflower murderer to “AmericaÂ's Sherlock Holmes,” these figures are more than historical runners-up—theyÂ're the spies, explorers, patriots, and martyrs without whom history as we know it would be very different indeed.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans
- Sottotitolo: Piratees, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Michael Farquhar
- Editore: Penguin Group USA
- Collana: Penguin Group USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 25 Marzo '08
- Genere: HISTORY
- Pagine: 256
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 139 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0143113054
- EAN-13: 9780143113058